On 23 May 2000, Frederic Lepied wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This may seem like a strange thing to do but I have a requirement to have a
> > > user who only has 16bpp, while everybody else will be on 24bpp. (This is so a
> > > product which runs using WINE will run correctly.)
> > >
> > > Is there a way of getting different XF86Config's for different users ? X says
> > > it no longer looks for XF86Config files in the $HOME directory, so that idea
> > > failed !
> >
> > Never heard of this, but I'm also newbie on that question. Maybe fred
> > could help you out, he's an X-guru :-) ?
> >
>
> There is no way to do it without beeing root for security reasons.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but can't your user just call X like this:
startx -- -bpp 16
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